spheniscine wrote:
> "On the third hand" is mainstream English; "on the gripping hand" started

> out as a sci-fi reference, although also gaining mainstream acceptance.


"in the third hand" might be better expressed ma'i lo cimoi

Comment #3: Re: Alternate gloss

Jonathan (Tue Jun 16 09:04:22 2015)

Nah, at that point I'd just use mai :p

Comment #5: Re: Alternate gloss gleki (Tue Jun 16 09:34:38 2015) spheniscine wrote: > Nah, at that point I'd just use mai :p "hands" are about viewpoints IMO. zu'u scale is a very special case of it where there are two competing views, zu'u vs. zu'unai with zu'ucu'i breaking this duad and zu'una'i (or zu'uge'e acc.to CLL) disabling this scale.

Comment #4: Re: Alternate gloss

Jonathan (Tue Jun 16 09:06:29 2015)

Or for a really crazy idea, if we really need even more "hands" we could use (zu'u mau'i) :p

Comment #6: Re: Alternate gloss gleki (Wed Jun 17 06:11:07 2015) spheniscine wrote: > Or for a really crazy idea, if we really need even more "hands" we could > use (zu'u mau'i) :p Of course not since the scale has only two ends.